Saturday, October 24, 2015

501: Learning time

... roughly 10 of 60 minutes are not spent learning.
In one day, roughly 50 minutes.
In a 5 day week, 250 minutes.

In a typical school year, 8,700 minutes not utilized for learning.

Now, let's be realistic and cut that number in half
because we all know there are assemblies and other events that cut into
learning time throughout the school year. That leaves us with 4,350
minutes of time not spent learning.

A Daily Classroom ....

About Me

I'm a high-school math teacher completely frustrated with new math, reform math, fuzzy math, the color of math, talking about math, literacy across the curriculum and all those other things that get in the way of students actually learning math, not to mention the ever-present "You need to help raise our scores by taking one day a week to go over test-taking skills" and other administrative folderol.